Emmanuel Mensah saving the world

The New York Post reports that Army private, Emmanuel Mensah, was home on leave for the first time since he enlisted a year ago, when the building that he was staying in was consumed in fire. He helped several people to safety, but then succumbed to the inferno himself;

“He helped his roommate’s wife and children, they were trying to come out to the stairs and he stopped them.”

“He told them to come out the window .?.?. Then he went in and tried to rescue people out.”

Emmanuel’s body was recovered from another apartment on the same floor, the father said.

The “calm and lovely” young patriot had set his heart on becoming a soldier when the family moved to the US from their native Ghana five or six years ago, [his father] Kwabena said.

“When he came here he just said, ‘Dad, I want to join the Army,’?” he recalled.

“At first I didn’t agree with him, but I decided that’s his choice.”

From CBS News;

Emmanuel Mensah’s roommate was the last to see him. She made it out with her four children and husband but lost Mensah in the mix.

“Tried to call and phone everywhere, my husband went to hospital,” she told CBS New York.

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